Overview
- Provides a highly unique and provocative perspective on the topic of creativity and education
- Brings together leading cross-disciplinary experts to weigh-in on the creative contradictions in education
- Provides fresh cross-disciplinary insights into how these paradoxes might be resolved or better addressed
- Introduces new approaches and methodologies for examining long-standing creative contradictions in education
Part of the book series: Creativity Theory and Action in Education (CTAE, volume 1)
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Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when attempting to understand and apply creativity in educational contexts. Creativity in education is surrounded by many contradictions. Teachers generally value creativity, but question the role it can and should play in their classroom. Many educators find themselves feeling caught between the push to promote students’ creative thinking skills and the pull to meet external curricular mandates, increased performance monitoring, and various other curricular constraints. This book brings together leading experts who provide fresh, cross-disciplinary insights into how creative contradictions in education might be addressed. Contributors will draw from existing empirical and theoretical work, but push beyond “what currently is” and comment on future possibilities. This includes challenging the orthodoxy of traditional conceptions of creativity in education or making a case for maintaining particular orthodoxies.
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Keywords
- beliefs and creativity
- benefits vs risks of creativity
- classroom creativity
- creative teaching and learning
- creative thinking skills
- creativity in education
- creativity research
- cross-disciplinary creativity
- curricular contraints
- defining creativity
- future directions of creative teaching and learning
- innovation in education
- paradoxes in creativity education
- pedagogical approaches in creativity
- learning and instruction
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Practical Applications & Promising Directions
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creative Contradictions in Education
Book Subtitle: Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives
Editors: Ronald A. Beghetto, Bharath Sriraman
Series Title: Creativity Theory and Action in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21924-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21923-3Published: 12 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79369-6Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21924-0Published: 30 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2509-5781
Series E-ISSN: 2509-579X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Psychology, Learning & Instruction, Curriculum Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Creativity and Arts Education